State ex rel. Shelton v. Sepe

CARROLL, Judge.

This is an original proceeding in prohibition. By an information the relator was charged in two counts with sale of marijuana, and in two counts with possession of the drug, in violation of § 398.03 Fla. Stat., F.S.A. In the suggestion in prohibition the relator alleged the respondent judge, before whom his cause is pending, had made a public pronouncement of a policy for confinement of persons convicted of said offenses, and that by reason thereof he feared he would not receive a fair trial; and that relator’s motion for disqualification of the judge filed pursuant to Rule…